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Bodybuilding : reforming masculinities in British art 1750-1810
- Title
- Bodybuilding : reforming masculinities in British art 1750-1810 / Martin Myrone.
- Author
- Myrone, Martin.
- Publication
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, c2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- Description
- vii, 384 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315-373) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : masculinity as cultural work in eighteenth-century Britain -- 'Our arts may hope for new advances' : the state of the arts 1755-1765 -- Reforming the hero : London in the early 1760s -- Gavin Hamilton and Rome in the 1760s -- James Barry in France and Italy -- 'Over-stocked with artists of all sorts' : the state of the arts 1765-1775 -- General Wolfe among the Macaronis -- Outlaw masculinity : John Hamilton Mortimer in the 1770s -- Alexander Runciman in Rome and Edinburgh -- Henry Fuseli and Thomas Banks in Rome -- 'This weak, disjointed age' : the state of the arts 1775-1785 -- The American war and the heroic image -- Gothic romance and quixotic heroism : Fuseli in the 1780s -- The male nude at the Royal Academy -- 'Three young sculptors' of the 1790s -- 'I never presum'd to class the painters' : the state of the arts 1785-1800 -- Conclusion: genius, madness and the fate of heroic art : Blake and Fuseli in the nineteenth century -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Photograph credits -- Index.
- Call Number
- JQF 06-627
- ISBN
- 0300110057 (cl : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005012041
- OCLC
- 59879576
- Author
- Myrone, Martin.
- Title
- Bodybuilding : reforming masculinities in British art 1750-1810 / Martin Myrone.
- Imprint
- New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315-373) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 06-627